Chapter 118 Biasley's painting

Biasley's painting Recently I read "Bearsley's Paintings" edited and printed by wood engraver Mr. Zhang Wang.This is far in the northeast of the motherland A corner of , a new book currently being published by Liaoning Pictorial in Shenyang under the ice and snow.For Ji In memory of the 20th anniversary of Mr. Lu Xun's death, the domestic art circles are introducing works of artists he recommended Organize and publish.This Biasley collection is one of them.Because in 1929 Lu Xun compiled and published "Art "Yuan Chaohua", a "Selected Paintings of Biasley" was printed.But only twelve pieces were selected and printed at that time.

What Mr. Zhang Wang chose to print was a giant volume of sixty pages. I've always liked Beardsley's paintings.When I was an art school student, I fell in love with took his painting.Not only as a hobby, but also imitating it by hand, and has painted many Biasley-style decorative paintings and illustrations.For this matter, I have been scolded by Mr. Lu Xun again and again, and so far I have opened, "Second "Heart Collection" and other books can't help but make me blush.But thirty years on, my love for Biasley is still It has not changed, but I myself have long since stopped painting.

I have long wanted to compile a collection of Biasley's paintings, with an essay on his career and art in just twenty years. A detailed introduction to the technique.This volunteer, like many of my other writing volunteers, dragged on for years and years. Years, has been shelved.In order to prepare for this work, I bought a collection of his works published in the UK, This is the most complete edition, a three-volume volume like an encyclopedia, divided into early works, late works and later newly discovered works.These books were all left in Shanghai, they had been lost during the Anti-Japanese War, and they still exist today.

It makes me very worried, and I can't forget it, because even if I go to the UK to buy it again, it will cost a lot of money. It took a long time to search in second-hand bookstores before I could get such a good version again.Fortunately, Biasley's painting, this A few years are often mentioned in the UK, because he died in 1898, and he died in 1948. To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death, several new anthologies of his works have been published in the UK, including The famous "Yellow Mian Zhi" was also copied out.These newly published "Bearsley Paintings",

I've bought almost all the books I've never let go of.Although not as grand and complete as those published in those days, But it is enough to fill the void in this respect, and if used to compile an anthology and write a critical biography, The material is also more than adequate.It's a pity that in the life in front of me, it seems that there is still no time left for me to do this kind of work. Work.Fortunately, there is already this book edited and printed by Mr. Zhang Wang, so I can simply put it aside for the time being. This volunteered. The first person in China to introduce Biasley's works should be Mr. Tian Han.He edited Nanguo Weekly

At that time, Biasley's works were used for the front page and the illustrations inside, and the translation he adopted was very Full of poetic flavor, it was translated into "Piya Cilu".Later he translated Yude's, in which Using the famous illustrations of Biasley's series, even the cover art and catalog decorations are based on the original book of.At the same time, Mr. Yu Dafu also wrote an article "Huang Mian Zhi and Its Writers" in Creation Weekly, introducing Biasley's paintings and the poems of Dawson and others, so Biasley's name and works were widely recognized at that time.

Gradually, I became well-known and loved in the Chinese literary world, and my "Chinese Biasley" was also in At this time came into being.The covers and pages I drew for "Flood Fortnightly" and "Creation Monthly" Head decorations are all Biasley style. But what made Biasley's work so impressive to ordinary people at the time was that it depended on another The first best-selling book, that is the first episode of "Sexual History" edited by Mr. Zhang Jingsheng, because he chose Biya The first illustration by Sly, "The Woman in the Moon", is used as the cover of the book.

Aulcey Beacdsley was born on August 21, 1872, 189 He died of lung disease on March 16, 2008. This British painter genius at the end of the 19th century, only After living in this world for twenty-five years and seven months, he died.His legacy is today's countless art lovers The hundreds of works (almost all black and white, with only a few oil paintings, copper engravings and lead pen and watercolor), all are the products of his short artistic life of less than ten years, which is exactly what Bias Lai's works are the reason why people have to look at them with admiration. In the British literary world at the end of the nineteenth century, today's literary historians call this period "the time of Biasley".

"Generation", centered on this short-lived genius painter, will use "Huang Mian Zhi" as the published work successively The group of painters, poets and essayists in the center are representatives reflecting the spirit of the times.these characters, In addition to Biaslai, the painters include Whistler, Max Bill Boehm, the poet Daosheng, Swinburne, Simmons, and prose novelists include Oscar Wilde, George Moore and so on.Therefore the nineteenth century Although the "end of the century" is not a great era in the history of English literature, it is a time of genius.

It is a special era full of artistic vitality, full of splendor and contention among a hundred schools of thought.On the one hand is the end of the old times, and It is also the beginning of a new era. Jackson, who has studied the British literary world at this stage, once commented on Beasley's Appeared, the influence produced at that time and later: This talented painter was dissatisfied before and after he set foot in the painting world. In ten years, he appeared suddenly like a comet and died suddenly like a comet, but his achievements and legacy The influence below is indestructible.No artist has achieved universal success overnight like he did

high reputation. As a purely decorative painter, Biasley was unmatched.His black and white paintings give modern art The depth of the impact is astonishing.As long as you observe carefully, you can find that modern painters are almost Everyone has been directly or indirectly influenced by his taste for line and decoration, even Picasso No exceptions.